The Indonesian language situation and linguistics; Prospects and possibilities

Steinhauer, H.

doi:10.1163/22134379-90003070

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“…According to the national census of 2000, the population then was 206,264,595 (Statistics Indonesia, accessed 24/08/08), making Indonesia the fourth largest nation on earth by population. Ethnologue 15 (Gordon 2005) lists Indonesia as having 742 languages spoken within its borders, although other sources suggest that the methodology adopted in this publication results in a figure which is too high (Steinhauer 1994). On the basis of their figure, Ethnologue makes Indonesia the 26 th most linguistically diverse nation in the world.…”

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Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia

Musgrave¹

Language, Education and Nation-Building

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Indonesia is a large nation in terms of both geography and population, and a very large number of languages are spoken within its territory. Historically, multilingualism was and is the norm in many parts of the archipelago, and common even in areas where one language dominates. The emergence of a unitary state with a national language after World War 2 has exerted pressure towards greater uniformity, but the shifts which are taking place are best viewed as changing patterns of multilingualism, rather than as shifts of large populations from one language to another. Such shifts in patterns of language use are occurring throughout the nation, and are resulting in threats to the viability of some languages, especially in the eastern part of the archipelago where there are many languages with small speaker populations. The size of the language groups in the east also has consequences for language maintenance. Although official policy recognises the right of different language groups to maintain their languages and cultures, resources for such activities are scarce and the large ethnolinguistic communities in the west, where several languages have speaker numbers in the millions, have been more successful in accessing resources and institutional support which assist language maintenance. In contrast, speaker groups in the eastern part of Indonesia have limited access to resources available for language maintenance, although recent funding initiatives by organisations based in Europe have at least assisted in drawing attention to the problems faced in that region.

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Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia

Musgrave¹

Language, Education and Nation-Building

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“…Official language policy at national level diminishes the economic opportunity of local languages because those only used in intraethnic communication and local events. For instance, the tribe of Moi and Inanwatan in West Papua in 1993 didn't use their language and shifted to Bahasa since the presence of logging companies in their region [10]. Second is an external factor that characterized by extensive use of English as the standardized language of social interaction in the globalization era.…”

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Glocalization of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Strengthening Preservation of Indonesia’s Endangered Languages in Globalized World

Septiyana¹,

Margiansyah²

2018

Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs (IcoCSPA 2017)

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The negative impact of globalization affects the very existence of cultural identities including local languages. Indonesia, multilingual state with more than 700 local languages, encounters such impact where a number of its languages are increasingly endangered, even some of them already dead. This paper is intended to identify some issues faced by the government and its policies to preserve its vernacular languages. In the final section, we suggest the concept of glocalization as important understanding to expand actors' viewpoint in preserving local languages from endangerment and extinction, as well as attempts to contribute some of the ideas substantiating the preservation effort.

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“…Steinhauer's (1994) publications include the summary article 'The Indonesian language situation and linguistics; Problems and possibilities' for the one hundred and fiftieth edition of Bijdragen. In that article Steinhauer discussed the urgent task of systematically studying the dozens of local languages before they were eradicated by Indonesian as the language for administration and education: 'modernisation implies cultural genocide' .…”

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Dutch Scholarship in the Age of Empire and Beyond

Kuitenbrouwer¹

2014

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The Indonesian language situation and linguistics; Prospects and possibilities

Cited by 45 publications

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Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia

Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia

Glocalization of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Strengthening Preservation of Indonesia’s Endangered Languages in Globalized World

Dutch Scholarship in the Age of Empire and Beyond

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